Linked by David Adams on Sun 9th Nov 2008 07:16 UTC, submitted by Vincent
As you have probably noticed, new versions have arrived of Ubuntu, Xubuntu and other derivatives. One of the most exciting new features has received far less publicity than it deserves - the ability to 'install' it onto your USB flash drive with just a few clicks. The advantages are obvious: just plug your flash drive into a computer and run your favourite operating system. What's more, everything you do - installing applications, saving documents, editing preferences - will be saved to your flash drive and will be available to you every time you run it! The best news is that it's astoundingly easy: all it takes is a few clicks.
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I think the issue is that Ubuntu users and even Canonical to an extend tend to take credit for open source innovation as a whole.
Not sure about some Ubuntu users, there are many kinds of them, some maybe also less informed than others, of course. That shouldn't cause serious headache to you or anyone else.
But as to Canonical, I haven't seen them being guilty of taking credit for open source innovation as whole any more than others. Claims that they would have been doing that a lot seem mostly FUD to me, maybe caused by envy and Ubuntu popularity. Canonical knows, like everyone else, that most of their software is open source (in Ubuntu's case most of it comes from Debian too), so developed by many others too than just themselves.
Open source is - by the very definition - almost always developed in the open, not behind the closed doors of some commercial company only. Often the developer community is worldwide even in small open source projects. Also innovation tends to happen in that worldwide non-proprietary community, not behind the closed doors of some company. So how could some open source company even try to take sole credit for open source?
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2008-11-09
Agree, we all share between distributions.
I think the issue is that Ubuntu users and even Canonical to an extend tend to take credit for open source innovation as a whole.
Last year at Linux world I saw a Canonical session on desktop linux and it was shocking to see all the projects they took credit for :
- Plug and play in Linux with HAL & Dbus
- Graphical network management with NetworkManager
- Improved X server
- Improvements in Linux device driver support for more platforms.
Sadly none of them were developed or funded by canonical.
But they certainly do a good job of packaging.